Wall Street Journal: “Television’s best drama series is, in short, back with all that was delectable about season one on vivid display again-first-class writing, sterling performances, rocketing suspense.”

New York Post: “Without a doubt, Homeland is the best drama on TV right now.”

Washington Post oppsummerer det hele på en strålende måte:

“Does that make “Homeland” the best political TV series ever made? Of course, there’s “The Wire,” which told the complicated saga of who really ran Baltimore — drug-dealing impresarios or City Hall desperados. “The West Wing” constructed some alternate progressive reality when the Bush administration proved, at minimum, less loquacious. And “24” used the usually numbing mechanism of prime-time television to drag audiences closer to terrifying geopolitical unrest, suggesting that the real world has many brink-of-war crises that are carefully, deliberately undetectable.

“Homeland” keeps this concept alive and electric, insisting that entertainment can offer escapism not just from ordinary life, but also from ordinary headlines. There’s no hegemony on what’s happening in the world, and there are more official sentries than ever standing in the way of facts. Through the well-traveled characters of Carrie and Brody, the globe seems more curved and spins more quickly. Above all, “Homeland” depicts something useful and suspenseful about the world that you can’t get anywhere else.